Kornel Lelea, front, and Tony Jones are see in Lelea's living room, which has a 70-inch TV. "With the (new) 70-inch now, it's better than a movie theater," says Lelea of Hawthorne, Calif.

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MIKE SNIDER
USA Today

Thanks to always-on wireless Internet connectivity and bigger, better TVs that reproduce pixel-perfect high-definition video, cocooning is entering a new evolutionary stage. Consumers are staying home more, watching movies delivered via cable, satellite, Internet or disc, eating in and transforming their apartments and houses into a shelter from the daily social storm.

This new level of super-cocooning is affecting Hollywood, professional sports and restaurants across the U.S. "Everybody is ...